The Saltair NE quadrangle is in the northwestern part of Salt Lake County and western part of Davis County, Utah. The map area is mostly Great Salt Lake shoreline and lake bed, but also contains part of the Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area and a number of duck hunting club wetlands. No bedrock is exposed in the quadrangle. The valley floor is covered by Quaternary lacustrine and marsh deposits. Lacustrine deposits are from late Pleistocene Lake Bonneville (30 to 13 ka) (in shallow subsurface), the Gilbert-episode lake (~11.5 ka), and Holocene Great Salt Lake (since ~11 ka).